Escaping

[Mickey1122]

Have you ever wanted to escape class? Just leave in the middle of it? I am not refering to cutting or leaving because you are bored. I am talking about uncomfortable situations that you don't want to be a part of. For example, you can leave the room if you do not wish to see the R rated movie that the teacher is showing, for a religious reason or otherwise. There are some everyday situations that you don't know about in advance. Things like "If I knew he was going to talk about _____, I would have made up an excuse to leave, whether to get water or go to the nurse, etc.
Last Health lesson: We are watching a movie about the history of drugs, their creation, and transition from medicinal to recreational purposes, etc. Our teacher paused the video to talk abotu something.
We have a long term substitute, filling in for a sick teacher. He likes to use...personal anecdotes. One that we did NOT need was the story about his 6th kidney stone expulsion. It came replete with diagram on the board. It lasted seven minutes and 18 seconds.
I counted. Everybody counted. He was..vivid in his description, and made everyone very uncomfortable. The phrases that he used suggested excruciatig pain. No one wanted to be there.
I whipped out the Sudoku puzzle that I had been saving for French class, and I began to fill it out franticly, trying to distract myself.
It didn't work. He is one of those people who always seems to be staring right at you when they are talking, even though they probably aren't. The girl next to me started proofreading an English essay. Shw seemed a bit uncomfortable. Everyone just wanted to yell "TMI!!" We understood that it was a painful experience for him...we just didn't need a blow by blow account.
So my question is this: Do you have some excuse to leave in such a situation? It would be awkward to interrupt a lecture and ask to use the restroom. Someone had already "had a fit of coughing and left for water." What do you do to escape?

 

[Sparx]

I can zone out really really hard if I don't want to be somewhere. I swear, its like sleeping with my eyes open. I usually laugh something off if I'm getting uncomfortable, but its hard to make me uncomfortable. I will ask to go to the restroom if I feel the need to leave though. But I can't really remember ever being so seriously uncomfortable that I would need to leave.

 

[Mickey1122]

Zoning out was what lots of people tried to do. It was just too odd to ignore. Not your everyday lesson, lol.

 

[tinkerbell12]

yea... smart whoever did that coughing fit... i would have i guess just sat there... thxgoodness for that sudoku, huh? I would have gotten out a paper and passed notes or doodled... i do that anyway tho....

 

[DollfieDreams]

well. i want to escape only certain classes. like my senior english class. its full of football yahoos and make-up junkies who don't know how to spell the word "awe". they can't conceive any type of writing past the title. and they don't respect anyone. my literature and the arts class is the same. sad thing is it was an elective, not a requirement and yet there are still idiots who go "...whats a deity? can you all stop using such big words?"

 

[tinkerbell12]

know how u feel.... sad sad they will never go much past a mcdonald's or gas station dude job...no offense if you are one of those.... nvm it is just a stereotypical thing, you know?

 

[Mickey1122]

well. i want to escape only certain classes. like my senior english class. its full of football yahoos and make-up junkies who don't know how to spell the word "awe". they can't conceive any type of writing past the title. and they don't respect anyone. my literature and the arts class is the same. sad thing is it was an elective, not a requirement and yet there are still idiots who go "...whats a deity? can you all stop using such big words?"

Kind of reminds me of a girl in my English class. She thought that "today" was a verb because there is a "to" in front of "day." She would fall into the make up junkies cattegory.

Your lucky that that's all you want to escape from though. What I typed in the OP can't come close to what it felt like to be there. Thank goodness for that Sudoku puzzle!

 

[DollfieDreams]

Kind of reminds me of a girl in my English class. She thought that "today" was a verb because there is a "to" in front of "day." She would fall into the make up junkies cattegory.

Your lucky that that's all you want to escape from though. What I typed in the OP can't come close to what it felt like to be there. Thank goodness for that Sudoku puzzle!

reminds me of another girl in my lit&thearts class that thought if you paused a dvd, you could take out that paused dvd and place it into another dvd player and play it from where you paused it. uh huh.

lol, i couldnt have made it through that class you mentioned. thats just a little...too much.

 

[Princess Ash]

Close my eyes or block my ears or do something that may seem rude...but saves me. So far I haven't had anything that UNCOMFORTABLE, but I have had stuff that has disturbed me that badly that I have had to do that...
Or...just leave. It's not rude to leave in the middle of it and excuse yourself if possible if you come back and explain yourself later, IMHO.

 

[MuNkY]

Oh man. All the times in my english class where I just wanted to get up and leave.

 

[AllyGirlie]

I would have just quietly left the room.

There was one time in my Chemistry lecture that I wanted to leave. The professor was asking questions and no one was responding. He got pissed and threw the chalk onto the table and yelled at us for like 5 minutes about how irresponsible we are for not learning the material. I hated that class with a passion, thank God it's finally over.

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

I couldn't stand Social Studies for awhile. Some of the most obnoxious kids in the grade - in one class. That's a bad mixture. One of them just recently got transferred out, though. Class is much much quieter, and I can actually have some peace in my morning.

 

[WORLDwarQUIFFLE]

I'm really good at distracting myself and tuning others out, so that doesn't really happen to me.

 

[Mickey1122]

I would have just quietly left the room.

There was one time in my Chemistry lecture that I wanted to leave. The professor was asking questions and no one was responding. He got pissed and threw the chalk onto the table and yelled at us for like 5 minutes about how irresponsible we are for not learning the material. I hated that class with a passion, thank God it's finally over.

You remided me. The man I talked about in the OP subbed our chemistry class for three months. Our first teacher had a problem with his back and was forced into extended absence because of his health. I will now refer to the sub (who subbed chemistry and health) as Mr. Anonymous) Mr. Anonymous came and taught us. His wife happened to be an actual chemistry teacher. (On the side, the guy we got after Mr. Anonymous was even worse. Behavior was 2 test grades!) Anyway, he didn't know a proton from a neutron. His wife came in every day and helped us. We ended up getting promised a 35% curve on the midterm. (I got a 130% Yay me! lol) Th etrouble was, he started liking me. I became one of the 'favorite students.' He knew my name and said hello in the corridors.
Fast forward to this year. My health teacher (that everyone loves) is on extended sick leave for an extremely severe case of lyme disease. She has been out since mid October and won't come back until after New Years, at the earliest. Now we have Mr. Anonymous again. He used to be a businessman before he decided to start teaching, btw. He has an expectation that everyone behaves a certain way. He likes authority. It's hard to know what to do in such a situation.
I just want to say that I am not trying to make this a Mr. Anonymous bashing thread, I am just trying to get rid o that queasy feeling that I have experienced since he shared the story of Kidney Stone #6.

 

[BeachBabi0]

i know you said someone already did the coughing fit, but thats exactly what i do. all of my teachers let people out of the room with one cough exept a couple (namely, my gym teacher). with him, i 'suddenly remember that i left in my dangly earrings'. i wear them every day to gym and school, but they are accually technically allowed, so he has to let me leave

 

[SplshMtnLvr28]

Yeah... We watched 'All Quiet on the Western Front' a few days ago... I absolutely HATE that movie. I just can't handle it. I wrote a 5 paragraph essay that was due for another class a few days later, that's how much I didn't want to watch it.

Or I just try and tune it out... I do that in Biology a lot. The other day my teacher was talking about how heart bypass surgeries are preformed, and I hate stuff like that, so I just tuned it out. My seat's right next to a window, so I can look out there and see what's happening in other classes.

 

[minniesBFF]

Ya, I wish I could do that. We are watching the gladiator in history, and I can't really handle a lot of blood and violence, and all the gladiator is is blood and violence. So I just put my head down or turn away when something comes on that I can't handle, but I can handle listening to it.

 

[Mickey1122]

Ya, I wish I could do that. We are watching the gladiator in history, and I can't really handle a lot of blood and violence, and all the gladiator is is blood and violence. So I just put my head down or turn away when something comes on that I can't handle, but I can handle listening to it.

Our history teacher has shown us movies like that also. Technically, I think she needs us to sign a release form, but she shows us violent movies anyway. We have watched Glory, Last of the Mohicans, and pieces of Cold Mountain. (She has a thing for the star of Last of the Mohicans. )

 

[topaz_onyx]

We sometimes get these things in skool where like 8 people from our grade have done something wrong and then we all have to go into a meeting with the teachers and their all like why did you do it??, this is not what we excpect of you!! and then they basically just shout at us.

 

[Dragonlord11_7]

My school's teachers can drone on and on and on and on and, one more for emphasis, and on about random topics. Like, when they got married, corn, gas alternatives, how they read the windows guide to a Macbook... etc. In sex-ed, the lady chose 5 people, including me, gave us fake names, like Boris and Yashaneeva, and made us spit in a cup with water and she mixed them to demonstrate how STD's are spread. Another day, we got into the topic of "sexual reproduction". Now, this is a 7th grade class. Half the time we were gaping at the amazing vocab she had , and the other half was us shaking our heads at how we managed to get ourselves into that mess.

My social studies class last year was... just outrageous. Our pervert teacher flirted with the girls and the guys. He spit alot when he talked, and with me being in the front row, I ended up having a bunch of tissues to wipe my face when he had lectures. He moved his podium to get a better view of our class, namely the girls (we have a uniform with skirts for girls). We made a petition to fire him. Even the other teachers signed it. Our principal called all the girls who started it and ripped it. In their faces. Then he gave them a lecture on false accusations. Thank goodness for the end of the year.